No man likes to be surpassed by those of his own level.
LIVYWit is the flower of the imagination.
More Livy Quotes
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Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
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We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort.
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The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
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Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.
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Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.
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War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
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Law is a thing which is insensible, and inexorable, more beneficial and more profitious to the weak than to the strong; it admits of no mitigation nor pardon, once you have overstepped its limits.
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All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
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When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
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Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Greater is our terror of the unknown.
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Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
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In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
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We can endure neither our vices nor their cure.
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It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
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